![]() ![]() They look like that because 65 doesn’t want to be Jurassic Park it wants to be a horror movie. The dinosaurs and the environment in that film don’t look like that by accident. Apple TV’s Prehistoric Planet is loaded with fuzzy, feathery, colorful dinosaurs behaving in ways you might not see coming. There are those that have tried to break the trend. The fact is, the entire dino industry is geared towards showing us dinosaurs not how they were 66 million years ago, but how we thought they were in the early 1990s. Check out Britain’s Natural History Museum where you would expect to prioritize accuracy. Of course in that same movie, the theme park designs a new, deadlier dinosaur for that same reason. ![]() Wong) basically flat out saying they genetically engineer out the feathers so audiences see dinosaurs that look how they expect. ![]() Jurassic Park has, too, sought to justify its adherence to Dino orthodoxy, with Jurassic World’s Henry Wu (B.D. Peter Jackson’s dinosaurs are almost all undoubtedly monsters, not animals, but at least have the excuse that they are the result of 66 million years of isolated evolution on Skull Island. The biggest dinosaur movie since 1993 not to be about a theme park was Peter Jackson’s King Kong (2005), whose dinosaurs harkened back to the stop-motion creations of the original 1933 movie. Nobody’s perfect, and one day we will forgive them for their Deinonychus erasure.īut all in all, Jurassic Park was a film that traded heavily on its scientific accuracy by the standards of the time. Sure, they turned Velociraptors into six-foot monstrosities rather than the knee-high critters they actually were, even though Deinonychus almost precisely matches the description of the movie dinosaurs but continues to dwell in obscurity. Brachiosaurs “don’t live in a swamp.” It’s a thrilling movie, but Jurassic Park also takes every step possible to convince its audience it is seeing what a dinosaur actually looked like. Dinosaurs were warm-blooded, active, social animals. The film is peppered with factoids and knowledge in line with the latest and still-developing ideas about dinosaurs of the time. The sort of “monstrous” touches other films might have used, like giving a Velociraptor a forked tongue, were avoided. These dinosaurs weren’t movie monsters they moved and acted, and sounded like animals. It was beloved because, to its nine-year-old audience at least, it was the closest they would ever get to seeing an actual dinosaur. When Jurassic Park was released, it featured groundbreaking special effects, but that wasn’t the reason it captured the school lunchbox market for the next five years. The baseline for all dinosaur movies of the last 30 years (with apologies to all our readers who said “That can’t be right,” then googled it, then sat quietly for a few moments wondering where the years went) is Jurassic Park. So the big question is, why? They didn’t stop to think about whether they should They looked fabulous.Īnd 65 is not alone in this. They didn’t look like the giant lizard you have to fight in a Dungeons & Dragons game. Everything we know about dinosaurs today leads us to believe that dinosaurs were feathery boys and girls. And that’s ignoring the fact the film’s title and opening text place it roughly a million years after dinosaurs became extinct.īut the biggest issue dinosaur aficionados have with 65, and it’s a recurring problem, is plumage. As far as we can tell, all meat-eating dinosaurs walked on two legs, with their legs positioned more like a chicken’s legs than a crocodile’s. Paleontologists have already pointed to a giant, four-legged T-Rex creature that is a total invention for the movie. And while the fossil record is incomplete, and there may have existed many species of dinosaur we are unaware of, the liberties the film takes go far beyond that. At one point there is a baby dinosaur that looks like a cross between a T-Rex and an Ankylosaurus, a species so far unknown outside of one episode of the Lego Jurassic World animated series. The dinosaurs presented in writer-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ film might have some recognizable body parts, and some may even bear a passing resemblance to a few of the bigger names from the My First Dinosaur book you had as a kid, but for the most part, the giant killer reptiles we see in that movie are monsters, nothing more, and nothing less. Except that the aliens look an awful lot like they come from Earth, and the dinosaurs… don’t. 65 is a movie about aliens crash landing on Earth during the age of the dinosaurs.
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